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Poster:	Greg Lindahl	Date:	Apr 2, 2007 5:51pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Downloading metadata

Is there a way to download all the metadata from a collection in one go?

I have a script that walks a collection to get the individual foo_meta.xml files, but this is a waste of your bandwidth and my programming time.

As an example of this, Gutenberg has their entire collection's metadata at:

http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/catalog.rdf.bz2

Why do I want this data? I process it to produce useful sub-lists of books related to my pre-1600 re-enactment hobby...

-- greg

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Poster:	Greg Lindahl	Date:	Apr 4, 2007 1:18pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Downloading metadata

And if you'd like to see the neat things I do with metadata:

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/union/

I'd really like to go back and add metadata to the 10% of the books which don't have any LC subjects, generally because they don't have a MARC record in the archive.org metadata.

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Poster:	Greg Lindahl	Date:	May 14, 2007 1:10pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Downloading metadata

And to answer my own question:

http://www.archive.org/services/oai2.php

Yippie!